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The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast
John Donne, England's leading Metaphysical poet, becomes dean of St Paul's
A sudden attack by Powhatan Indians, led by their chieftain Opechancanough against the English colony at Jamestown, results in the death of more than 300 settlers
Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture
The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck begins a five-year stay, and a successful career as a portrait painter, in Genoa
Tne English settlers in Virginia arrange a peace conference with the Powhatan Indians, using it as an opportunity to murder the Powhatan delegates
John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio
Diego Velazquez becomes court painter to the king of Spain - a post which he will hold for the remaining thirty-seven years of his life
The Japanese are forbidden to leave their country, or foreigners to enter, at the start of more than two centuries of almost total isolation
Nicolas Poussin arrives in Rome, where he develops the tradition of French classicism
Gustavus II, king of Sweden, conscripts and trains an army far more mobile than those of his rivals
Ordnance factories in Sweden begin producing light but powerful field artillery, easy to move on the battlefield
Rubens completes a great narrative sequence of twenty-one paintings to celebrate the achievements of Marie de Médicis
Three brothers among the Dahomey people establish a long-lasting kingdom in the Bight of Benin
The Dutch gradually exclude the Portuguese from the immensely lucrative trade in cloves from the Spice Islands (or Moluccas)
On the death of his father, James VI and I, Charles I becomes king of England and Scotland
The English parliament attempts to clip the wings of the new king, Charles I, by placing an annual limit on his power to raise taxes
Ham House is expanded by William Murray, former ‘whipping boy’ to Charles I, and later created Earl of Dysart
Peter Minuit purchases the island of Manhattan from local Indians and calls the place New Amsterdam
Charles I frustrates the English parliament's restrictions by raising taxes without summoning parliament for renewed approval
A British colony is founded in Barbados and within fifteen years has 18,000 settlers
Claude Lorrain, basing himself like Poussin in Rome, paints classical landscapes suffused in light
William Harvey publishes a short book, De Motu Cordis, proving the circulation of the blood
The English parliament's Petition of Right emphasizes the right of the citizen to be protected from royal tyranny
John Bunyan is born the son of a brass-worker in the Bedfordshire village of Elstow
